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Budget writers only have $660 million in new annual money to allocate. It can be eaten up quickly by teacher pay raises, state employee health insurance, Medicaid increases and money to freeze college tuition.

The current starting teacher pay is $42,500 a year.

The Metra board has authorized a 3.7% pay raise for CEO Jim Derwinski, as the agency contines to face low ridership and stares down a looming fiscal cliff. Derwinski will now make $325,825, up from $314,200. The change, retroactive to January 2023, marks his third raise since the onset of the pandemic, after the board approved raises for 2021 and 2022. Prior to the pandemic Derwinski’s salary ...

City of Carlsbad Municipal Judge Collis Johnson received a $62K a year salary from the Carlsbad City Council on Jan. 13. The old salary was $34K.

TSA officers aren’t automatically given the governmentwide annual raise proposed by the president.

Kansas lawmakers are set to get a 93% pay raise next year after they did not stop a plan crafted by a bipartisan compensation commission.

The 10-page salary increase report was released as part of the investigation into the pay dispute.

Kansas lawmakers are working to approve $11.2 million in additional spending after underfunding pay raises for state employees last year.

Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators' pay at the start of next year.

Beloit City Manager Jerry Gabrielatos received high praise from the city council and a 3.75% raise in his first official evaluation.